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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4515 - AN ACT
GRANTING FINDLAY MILLAR TIMBER COMPANY A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT,
ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE, PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE
SHIP-TO-SHORE, PRIVATE AERONAUTICAL AND LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE
RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES Section 1. There is hereby granted to the Findlay Millar Timber Company, its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct maintain and operate in the Philippines, and at such places as the grantee may select subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, ship-to-shore, private aeronautical and land-based and land-mobile radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraph and radiotelephone, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private radio stations or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe. Sec. 3. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not established a similar service at the places selected by the grantee but not exceeding twenty-five years, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or installation of said stations be begun within one year from the date of the approval of this Act and completed within two years from said date. Sec. 4. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, establish, maintain, and operate private fixed point-to-point, ship-to-shore, private aeronautical and land based and land mobile radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the interest of its trade and business may justify. Sec. 5. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder, but the grantee, its successors or assigns, may use the international distress frequency of five hundred kilocycles and the high distress frequency of eight thousand two hundred eighty kilocycles whenever necessary. Sec. 6. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only. Sec. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines. Sec. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations. Sec. 9. A special right is hereby reserved to the
President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public
peril, calamity or disaster to cause the closing of the grantee's radio
stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any
department of the Government upon payment of just compensation. Approved: June 19, 1965 |
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